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In case you are wondering why the site seems to die every week for eight or ten hours, we're in a very... interesting, to say the least, predicament. Our server is actually devastatingly out of space, so it has moments weekly where it crashes and won't come back online.
I have a new server ordered with 2 TB of space (and actually double the RAM, which I'm interested to see how it handles the site's load) but we're trying to figure out how to migrate the data. You see, when you have a site this large, data migration can take 2-3 days due to the sheer amount of it. Yet, even if you let it migrate data in the background of the old server site running, new data is constantly being added (by the actions all of you take onsite, making pets, exploring, new accounts being registered, forum posts etc.), which means that new data doesn't get copied over to the new server as it's created on the old server.
So we have a fun situation where we're trying to figure out how to minimize the data loss in moving. It's obvious that we can't shut the site down for three or four days to migrate the data; that would just suck for all of us.
I have an idea but we'll just have to see how it pans out. It seems like what takes up the most space are custom images. The goal is to get moved to the new server by next week though.
Well, anyway, that's your little update. This situation is annoying for Yasu and I, believe me...
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:45am
- JAK
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:48am
Yeah, isn't that lovely? lmao
- MOVED TO 126!
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:48am
And here I was thinking that the entire server caught on fire and burned to a crisp under all of this strain. Yay about the new server! :D --Yuuki.
- Witchchylde
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:48am
Well, I guess I'm happy I haven't made a custom to add to the load then. And I'll be thinking good thoughts during the transfer!
- Bones
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:49am
Hopefully your plan will work Slash! For now, I'm glad Aywas is back, lol. -Gibbs
- Amagami
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:50am
Good luck to you...and us XD
- Fae
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:50am
This happened on Nutrinopets long ago and they ran a red text on the top of the page that anything done in ... days would not be saved to the new server. Good Luck!
- Riley
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:50am
Well, that's unfortunate! D: I'm sure a solution can be figured out, though. It'll be nice to see if the new server can handle the lair loading a bit better.
- gone
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:51am
Well, at the very least, it's getting fixed. But yeah, that sucks. ): K
- Thief Lord Alex
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Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:52am
Hold a vote? see how many users would prefer the site being shut down for a few days vs. the new data not being saved?
I'm willing to bet that more users would prefer to not have the site shut down at all.
Posted on: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:47am
Wheeeee. ;.; - Eri